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thoughts on a new boot drive

seeing I just got a new motherboard , a asrock z270 that supports the new 950 samsung evo I am considering buying one like a 250 mb as a boot drive and using my 850 evo 500 mb as storage , question is is it worth it ?
Also I neverset up a 950 evo so can I fresh install windows 10 and how would I enable the samsung driver during the install ?

Re: thoughts on a new boot drive

I currently run a Crucial C300 128 as a boot drive and a 512MB Crucial MX100 as a games drive. So I would say it's worth it. I'm planning on getting a PCI Express SSD, and I've seen said drives on the market.

Re: thoughts on a new boot drive

Originally Posted by Nightowl224

I currently run a Crucial C300 128 as a boot drive and a 512MB Crucial MX100 as a games drive. So I would say it's worth it. I'm planning on getting a PCI Express SSD, and I've seen said drives on the market.

Nightowl How you doing man !
I been researching these drives and what I found is that windows 10 has a native nvme drives . What I also found is that you will need to setup these drives as a ueif check out thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZROqIboLM
That being said I am finding that for the average user the a nvme drive is not worth the money . oh sure benchmarks will show a difference , but real world use , not so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdF_aerWcW8
Now if someone can show me that this upgrade would be worth it ( I play games and surf the web ) I be all in

Re: thoughts on a new boot drive

I was on vacation for close to 2 weeks, and when I came back, had enough money left over to get my GTX 1070. Games do load much faster on an SSD. Diablo 3 for example loads faster and runs better on an SSD, as do Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition for example.

Re: thoughts on a new boot drive

Originally Posted by Nightowl224

I was on vacation for close to 2 weeks, and when I came back, had enough money left over to get my GTX 1070. Games do load much faster on an SSD. Diablo 3 for example loads faster and runs better on an SSD, as do Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition for example.

yes your correct on a standard ssd vs a HDD I totally agree , what I am referring to in my comments is a SATA SSD vs a NVME m.2 drive . I do not see the need for one for the average user who just games and browses the web

Re: thoughts on a new boot drive

well I just got a 960 evo 250mb for a boot drive . and while it is faster , it is not blow you away faster then my 850 EVO SATA did only one bench and that was atto some files maxed out at 1,000 mps while others at 500 . write speeds were lower most topping out at 500 mps . as far as boot time dead heat with the 850 evo . not complaining just saying

anyway its a good boot drive and now I can use the 850 500gb to store games !!